Receiving numerous awards, including the Okanagan Teen Honour in the Arts, the Kadac/Scorpion award for best young male performer in BC, the highest mark in the Kiwanis Music Festival in 2006, and at the request of M.P Werner Schmit and the Mayor of Kelowna, Howanyk had the honour of being one of the few select musicians chosen to represent Kelowna & Canada at the World Expo 2004 in Japan. We’re thrilled to have Mitch join us at Wub Gathering 2018 in Banff.
Mitch has been performing since he was 8 at countless events, most notably Kelowna’s Centennial with the Okanagan Symphony as well as independently before headliner Alan Jackson, the Merritt Mountain Music Festival, Keloha Music Festival (with acts such as MGMT,Mute Math, Awolnation), Centre of Gravity and opened for Fred Penner at the BC Children’s Festival.
He has toured with various musical projects across Canada, Bermuda and Alaska and has been voted top 3 in best of Kelowna 4 years in a row winning Gold in 2016. He believes that music is a performing art, and one to be shared. Balancing a successful performing career in many projects as well as sharing the legacy of music through teaching and mentoring has allowed him to maintain a career that he loves.
Mitchell Howanyk studied Music Performance at Brandon University and holds his Grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Violin as well as a teacher certificate from the province of British Columbia.
